The Boogeyman Interview: Director Rob Savage on Stephen King & Found Footage

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ComingSoon spoke with The Boogeyman director Rob Savage about the movie adaptation of the Stephen King short story.

about the movie adaptation of the Stephen King short story. Savage discussed turning the short story into a feature-length movie and his history with found footage.“High school student Sadie Harper and her younger sister, Sawyer, are still reeling from the recent death of their mother,” reads‘s synopsis. “They’re not getting much support from their father, Will, a therapist who’s dealing with his own intense pain.

I loved Sophie Thatcher’s performance as Sadie. She’s really the emotional core of The Boogeyman. Can you speak to her as an actress? I thought she killed it. I was curious about how you approached the actual Boogeyman in the movie. How was balancing the usage of him? You want to build suspense, but you also want to feature enough of him to have an impact. How was it finding that balance?

Your background right now is a poster image from the movie, which speaks to what we were going for. You’ve got this huge area of darkness and then this little hint of the creature. Me and Eli Born — the cinematographer — were constantly framing shots of like keeping my open closet in the background, so the audience’s eyes were always going to these dark areas of the screen and imagining the creature, even if he wasn’t there.

Whereas with David’s conception of the character, working with me and Mark Heyman, the writer, we wanted this to be a guy who is in need of somebody to listen to him. Somebody who’s reaching out, somebody who wants to be understood, and someone who you have a lot of sympathy for when he enters the room.

I’m a huge film buff, and I love the era of movies that he’s harkening back to the classic Universal monster movies. But I’ve always been looking for a curse movie — something that’s in the vein of The Ring. Something where you get a sense of something having been passed onto you like It Follows, and there’s a great sense of claustrophobia and mounting dread that’s in the comic book that comes from such an unusual place.

 

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